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FARMING IN TEXAS 



OR HOW TO FARM THE LANDS OF OUR 

SEASHORE COUNTRIES OF 

THE WORLD. 



(Copyrighted, 1912, by Chas. N. Simpson.) 

Reared and Raised and Lived His Entire Life in 

Tliose Lands and Countries in Practical 

Farming and Stockraising and 

Experimental Experience. 



A Most Complete Exposition and Defining of Science 

and Nature, to the Advancement of the 

Prosperity of All Agriculture in 

All Parts of the World. 



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PREFACE 



With this valuable knowledge, the people of the 
world can now successfuly grow and produce abun- 
dant yields of wheat, oats, corn, cotton, and all 
crops adapted to that particular Northern or South- 
ern temperature; and have, and keep, and success- 
fully raise all kinds o: farm animals, horses, mules, 
cattle, hogs, all kinds of poultry, etc., to the very 
best quality and highest value of specimens of their 
kind; thus enabling the people to now establish 
themselves in self-sustaining and prosperous farm 
homes in the laniis of our Seashore Country, where 
they can spend one life-long holiday in that often 
dreamed of most beautiful and popular playground, 
pleasure and health resort of the world, with its un- 
surpassed beauty of sunshine and sea; and its unex- 
celled health-giving, healing and most invigorating 
and exhiliarting liquid tonical atmosphere, for all the 
exhaustive weaknesses and ailments of the human 
family; the most finished and complete results of a 
twentj^-two years' study by close investigation, deep 
thought, open field demonstration and the thorough 
study of State chemists' analysis of the various soils; 
and his complete exposition thereon, and tried, 
proven and true remedies for all diseases of farm 
animals, all of which have the most solid grounds 
supported by indisputable and unquestionable evi- 
dences of them being facts. 



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FARMING IN TEXAS 



Or How to Farm the Lands of the Seashore 
Country (that public playground and health resort 
of the whole world. There is not a man living but 
what has had in his idle dreams visions of the pleas- 
ure resorts of the beautiful seashore), not only of 
Texas and the United States, but of the whole world, 
Europe, Asia, Africa and all of the Americas; and 
successfully purchase, improve and build up a most 
prosperous, profitable,, happy and self-sustaining, 
ideal farm home; growing and producing all of the 
crops useful and necessary to the sustenance and 
maintenance of life in man and animal, such as 
wheat, oats, corn, cotton and all crops adapted to 
the Southern or Northern temperature of the climate 
of the country, in which the seashore lands of his 
choice are located. 

What Its Contents Will Do. 

If in the South, the growing of the cotton crop 
will now be made a positive certainty, and with our 
demonstrated and proven knowledge of how to pro- 
tect this crop from the destructive ravages of its 
insect pests, including boll weevil, thorough instruc- 
tions being given in this work. That crop can now 
be produced to the amount of its entire limit, which 
on the strong, heavy lands of the seashore may be 
expected to reach the unexcelled yield of from one 
to two and three bales of cotton per acre. The extra 



amount of labor, machinery and money and traffic 
by railroad it would require to take care of and 
handle this crop alone would enrich the country to 
such an extent that it would be amazing. 
An Inventor's Life. 

In producing those wonderful results as depicted 
above, I have pressed the hard seat of the inventor, 
as all inventors of the great labor saving and much 
improved scientific inventions of these modern times 
have done before me, undergoing the ever attendant 
failures, unavoidable hardships and privations, the 
inevitable adversities necessarily accompanying all 
of the inventor's strenuous efforts toward the com- 
pletion of something that he is fully aware will be 
the most probable means of great good to his fellow- 
man and his country. 

Author an Inventor; What His Exposition on Science 
and Nature Will Do. 

In pressing the hard seat of the inventor, now for 
a long, arduous course and term of twenty-two years, 
I have the high satisfaction of knowing that I have 
brought to a fully demonstrated and proven success 
the finish of a scientific knowledge ( that no other 
human on earth in this day has in his possession) 
that once in possession of the people of the world 
will be the source of great comfort, pleasure and 
happiness to innumerable multitudes of people in all 
parts of the world; and of greatly increased wealth, 
popularity and power to all nations which have a 
large percentage of seacoast in their possessions. 

This work will go to show what those properties 
are in this seashore atmosphere that cures the sick, 
heals the afflicted, calms, strengthens and builds up 



the shattered nerves of the overtaxed professional 
ones — the statesman, college professor, lawyer, doc 
tor, etc.; strengthens, renovates and renews the over- 
worked brain of the business man — almost to dis- 
traction and complete breakdown in the busy rush 
of commerce; and thus save a probable case of self- 
destruction, or occupancy of one of our many 
asylums for the insane; also how it builds up and 
makes renewed strength and power in the sinews 
and muscle of the brawny arms of the weakened, 
wasted mechanic and toiling artisan, who became so 
through hard toil in the hard climate of the interior, 
with its blazing hot sun of summer and its frigid 
cold of long, exhaustless winters; and of how it builds 
up anew his interest in life; that poor, pitiable ob- 
ject of public sympathy — the dyspeptic and sufferer 
of stomach trouble — that who, unable to eat or enjoy 
the least luxury of life or pleasure, and to whom this 
world's beautiful side of nature aad creation had 
lost all power of attraction; how when first unloaded, 
and as soon as sufficient time would permit of his 
lungs taking into their depths this delicious, exhil- 
erating ozone and tonical effecting seashore atmos- 
phere, he steps out bouyantly, as if suddenly per- 
meated by some life-giving electric current, and ex- 
claims in accelerated terms and action, "Oh, but 
this feels good!" and from that instant on, the date 
of the building up of his vital organs has commenced, 
until after an almost incredible short lapse of time, 
he is made whole, and enjoys the good things of 
life as do other people. O glorious results! And all 

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from nothing more than living and being in this 
beautiful seashore atmosphere. 

Likewise the sufferer from catarrh, bronchial af- 
fections, consumption, and nearly all the ills and ail- 
ments that man is heir to in a hard climate, with 
no health-giving properties in its atmosphere. The 
result of my invention will show clearly what it is 
in the seashore atmosphere that causes all of those 
seemingly miraculous effects; and if there should be 
an occasional case — as there is sometimes through 
not knowing of the nature of this wonder working 
atmosphere — that fails to be benefited as others, my 
exposition of the subject will so thoroughly explain 
the nature of every particular that he can with a 
little assistance on his part reap the benefit as full 
and complete as the others. 

Human Systems. 

Human systems differ widely in their make-up, or 
in other words, the manner of the running of the 
human machinery therein — nerves, circulation and 
temperament. 

Effects of Sea Breeze. 

As the seashore has properties in its climate that 
are very sedative in their effects on the nerves, thus 
calming and quieting, it stands to reason that a per- 
son of an already quiet and sedate nerve will not be 
benefited in the same respect that one with a highly 
excitable and unsteady nerve and high temperament, 
would. Hence the need of assisting the nerves with 
an additional treatment of stimulating remedies. A 
pure article of rye spirits (whiskey) highly sweet- 
ened, when taken, or used in a rich and luscious egg- 
nogg, three times daily, will answer all purposes 

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handsomely, and greatly enhance and increase the 
high rate of recovery. Great care should be taken 
to at all times keep in position to obtain the 
greatest percentage of pure fresh air; and one should 
ever bear in mind that the taking and using of long, 
deep breathing, at all times, is the only effective and 
sure method of obtaining the desired results from 
atmospherical benefits or treatment. 

Tvlalarial Poison When Going to Seashore. 

As a m^atter of course if one arrives in this sea- 
shore climate with their systems overcharged with 
malarial poison, to such an extent as to cause the 
natural affections from such conditions, they should 
assist nature and the seashore in throwing this off 
the system, by the judicious use of some anti-malaria 
tonic and a light liver regulator, such as Black 
Draught or St. Joseph's Liver Medicine, all purely 
vegetable and harmless to use. 

A Heaven on Earth. 

Now we have seen, do see and are seeing those 
great beneficial effects on the life, health and per- 
petuation of man's happiness derived from only a 
short stay on J;he seashore. Oh! what a heaven it 
would be! what a veritable Garden of Eden to live 
in, if the lands and business propositions were alike 
benefited by the same cause and in the same large 
degree and proportion as the health, vitalities and 
life of man. This occupancy of the hard seat of the 
inventor for twenty-two long years was spent for 
that most heavenly purpose. To say that I was suc- 
cessful would be only mildly expressing the results 
They have been far more successful and satisfactory 
-than I could have ever expected; as my exposition 



and formula of instructions gained by scientific 
knowledge, will go to prove and demonstrate. 
Salt; Its Effects. 

Knowing what it is, knowing how it so ben- 
efits the health and vitality of man, and know- 
ing the cause and manner in which it so suc- 
cessfully does this, is the whole secret of success. 
Yet this same seashore atmospherical influences are 
disastrous to farm animal and farm crop plant life, 
as has been proven by repeated efforts of man to 
farm this Seashore Country land and to keep and 
raise farm animals. Knowing the cause of all of this, 
and knowing how to correct it and make it as thor- 
oughly beneficial to farm animal and farm crop plant 
life to the same degree as to the health, vitality and 
life of man, has been the crowning success of my 
long, arduous term of inventorial and scientific in- 
vestigations, open field demonstrations, experimental 
experience, and deep thought and study. 

Its Properties as a Chemical Medicine and Food. 

Salt is a chemical, medicine, and food in its prop- 
erties, both of which are indispensable to animal 
and plant life alike — sedative and stimulating and 
astringent. It has also highly preservative and puri- 
fying qualties, and wherever it is a most predomi- 
nant feature, as in our seashore country's climate, it 
roots up and drives out every vestige of carbonic 
acid gas and malaria, the presence of which is so 
urgently necessary to the successful agricultural till- 
age of the soil and of growing of crops useful to man; 
hence the great healthfulness of this salt permeated 
atmosphere for man. The chemical is also highly 
soluble; is easily dissolved by water, dampness and 

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moisture, and in this liquid and atmospherical form 
it is easily assimilated with the soil and air, and is 
made highly available to animal and plant life, to 
both of which it is beneficial alike and urgently 
necessary. 

As an Enrichening Substance of the Soil. 

If all the conditions of doing so are the same (as 
I will illustrate and prove), salt being highly soluble 
when met by moisture and being in itself a great 
producer of dampness and solvency of other solid 
and enrichening substances, and thus converting 
them into a liquid and absorbative form, making 
them highly available and easily taken up by the 
systems of both man, animal and farm crop plant 
life, thus creating such inordinary increase in the 
taking on of flesh in the one and foliage in the other; 
and of such renewed vitality of both and all, and 
that the increased appefTte of the one and tne de- 
mand of the other for additional and sufficient nour- 
ishment, by way of food, is so great that if no<- avail- 
able and supplied in most liberal quantities, disease 
and probable death, is the most certain and ulti- 
mate consequence. 

Man and Animals' Source of Nourishment. 

Now man's nourishment is ready prepared food, 
furnished in the best possible and most palatable 
order from pantry and kitchen, and in the required 
quantities his increased vitality demands. The farm 
animal's increased appetite and demand for increased 
quantitse of food depends on the price of feedstuffs, 
the proportional supply contained in bin and barn, 
and the generosity with which same is supplied, 
which very often is not in accordance, and equal to 



the increased demand for the same by the increase 
of vitality and appetite in the animal; while the addi- 
tional wear and tear of the animal's system, by 
steady usage at hard work, is also to be contended 
with, which , all in all, leaves the animal in very 
poor condition to cope with any disease that, through 
the exhausted condition of his system, may attack 
his physique. But for which my work here will con- 
tain successful treatments for, and will save the ani- 
mal, and with proper nourishment and better care 
in the future will not have to be repeated. 

Food of Plant Life; How Derived and Received. 

Likewise, plant life differs also from man in de- 
riving its nourishment, and the satisfying of an in- 
creased dem-and for food. The food of all vegetable 
and plant life is in the soil. Its mode of receiving it 
is in and through the absorbing of and taking it up 
in liquid form, through innumerable, soft and tender, 
small tendrill-like roots, being very soft, white, sap- 
like in appearance; and is kept so by the permeating 
of them of the liquid plant food which flows through 
them into the larger roots and so into the plant, 
feeding and producing fruit and foliage; some, so 
small as to almost be imperceptible, without the aid 
of a microscope, permeating all through every part 
of, and under the surface of the soil, and known as 
the feeders of the plant. 

Best Condition of Soil in Furnishing Abundant 
Nourishment. 

Now if the soil is strong and rich, and is in a high 
state of tillage, being soft, sponge-like, and loose in 
texture, and kept in a loamy, alluvial, mealj'-like 
condition, so as to permit of those tender, delicate, 

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soft, sap-like feeders to permeate every particle of 
the plant's seed bed, and so absorb and take up tiie 
rich liquid plant food and convey same up through, 
and to the plant, to satisfy the increased demand for 
same by the plant's enforced vigorous growth, caused 
by the effusive, highly soluble, and creator of soluble- 
ness, sedative and stimulative chemical qualities of 
salt, in its liquid form of salt sea water and its 
permeated seashore atmosphere, and the permeating 
effects of it on and into all other solid substances, 
thus converting them into plant life food; and if the 
soil is made (as above described by the applying of 
available acid phosphates to take the place of the 
phosphoric acid, which stands in the same respects 
and nature as carbonic acid gas to the soil and plant 
life; and which the purifying effects and quality of 
the salt have driven out of the seashore soils, thus 
causing a deficiency of this important one of the 
three elements of plant food, the complete combina- 
tion of all three of which is urgently necessary and 
must be to insure a perfect source of nourishment to 
plant life and a large yield of crop, to the land's full- 
est capacity of strength and richness) and kept in a 
well cultivated condition, the plant (like the man 
will be benefited to the highest degree — for, like the 
man, it will receive sufficient rich and nourishing 
food, as its increased vigor and growth causes an 
increased demand) life of the farm crops will be 
vigorous, healthy and will produce a healthy, full, 
plump and sound grain in wheat, oats, corn, or what- 
ever crop of its kind it perchances to be; while like 
the ill-kept and poorly nourished and fed farm animal 
— if kept like them and poorly nourished and fed, it 

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would become diseased, i. e., have the rust, smut, etc., 
which so spoils and damages the crop as to make it 
unfit for use; and people not knowing the trouble, 
and not having this knowledge, would construe it 
to be the fault of the climate; when there is not a 
more ideal climate — now that we understand it — for 
agricultural purposes than the seashore country's 
climate here or in any other part of the world. The 
only trouble before was that this most essential and 
beneficial element of chemicals to both animal and 
plant life — SALT — was supplied in such a bountiful 
manner as to overbalance the proper proportion and 
combination of the other elements of plant food in 
the soil; and though the richest in all of the more 
ocstly plant foods, of all lands in other parts, and 
more distant from the seashore, yet the deficiency 
of the more minor or less costly of the soil's plant 
food caused such a non-productiveness in the soil as 
to make it utterly useless to man in the production 
of all those crops that go to maintain and support 
life in man and farm animals, especially the horse; 
the hog coming next, as it requires crops of grain, 
etc., to profitably raise and keep them; also all 
kinds of poultry, and many, many unfortunate and 
afterward disappointed people; having tried to build 
up for themselves farm homes in this beautiful sea- 
shore country, with a soil that had a slight defect in 
it, causing them utter failure of anything like profit- 
able results, and the loss in many instances of their 
beautiful farm stock, which not being able to raise 
grain crops and give proper feed and nourishment, 
as their increased vigor and appetites demanded, 
contracted disease, from which many never recov- 

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ered. Oh! it is sad and would make the most hard- 
ened of mankind feel a deep sorrow for those poor 
unfortunate fellow citizens who only a short twelve 
months before were well-to-do farm people with am- 
ple means of self-sustenance and independence, now 
bereft of all; and them, and those beautiful children 
and loved ones of theirs, almost on the charity of 
the public, suffering privations and want; selling out 
their little remaining comforts in their homes to 
get means to convey them back to the hard and 
disagreeable climate of the interior, from which only 
a short while before they had such high hopes and 
anticipations of being forever free, and of being and 
living, day after day, month after month and year 
after year, one long lifetime holiday in this public 
playground and health resort. The beautiful sea- 
shore country, when I think of it and know that I 
have invented and learned scientific knowledge 
that will now make all of those high hopes and 
anticipations a solid and indisptuable reality, I al- 
most feel like shouting for pure joy; and trusting 
that I will not be thought vain, or adjudged a brag- 
gard, yet knowing the hundreds and hundreds of 
millions of acres of beautiful seashore country lands 
that are in the world today doing nothing more use- 
ful to man than harboring the unsightly cesspool 
with its every attendant annoying insects, and grow- 
ing the almost useless wild grasses and weeds; 
while the people are occupying homes back in the 
interior, with its hard climate of excessive heat in 
summer and extreme cold in winter, with its more 
malarial and disease producing atmosphere, when 
now with this knowledge every acre of this Sea- 

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shore Country all over the world, and in every na- 
tion and country, can be, and will be, included in the 
beautiful farm home of some fellowman when this 
little book of this most valuable scientific knowledge 
is once in their possession, for use and reference, 
as to how to now build up a happy, self-sustaining 
and profitable farm home there. I can't help but feel 
and think that I have accomplished and finished an 
invention that will be the means of bringing happi- 
ness and prosperity to more of my fellow-men than 
any other single invention that ever was completed, 
and will also be the great source of vastly increased 
wealth, power and fame to and of every country that 
has a large scope of seacoast plain land in her 
territory. 

Chemical Analysis. 
The chemical elements of plant food contained in 
the soil, as determined by the scientific analysis of 
same by the Texas State Chemist, their different 
natures and the respect inwhich they are required 
to grow the plant, develop and mature a full, sound, 
and an abundant yield of the many farm crops use- 
ful and urgently necessary to support and maintain 
life in man and farm animal, the scientific nanlysis 
of the soil goes to prove that it contains three ele- 
ments of chemical plant food that are requisite to 
the proper growth of vegetation (and the strict and 
perfect combination of all three of which is urgently 
necessary to insure the successful production and 
yield of those farm crops useful to man). Now the 
first and most costly of these chemicals is nitrogen; 
the nitrogenious matter and potash contained in the 
soil is formed by the decaying, decomposition and 

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solvency of all vegetation or solid matter deposited, 
growing and decaying or falling thereon throughout 
the long ages of its standing, and where there is 
no counteracting influence of the stronger chemical, 
salt, with its purifying qualities, which drives out all 
impure or foul chemicals that create and institute 
carbonic acid gases, so necessary to alluvial, loosen 
up and -create warmth and loamy conditions of the 
soil, there is a full quota of phosphoric acid, the 
third and last of the three analyzed chemicals. Of 
course there are other natural features, such as salts, 
carbon, oxygen, ammonia, and electric influences, all 
of which are principally derived from atmospherical 
treatment and influences, which, if the soil is prop- 
erly stirred and kept open by frequent and thorough 
cultivation, the plant life will derive full and com- 
plete benefit. 

To Ascertain Rich, Productive Soils, Etc. 
Now to complete a depleted soil, where the defl- 
cient chemicals are determined on and ascertained 
by the soil's general appearance, viz., an old, long- 
cultivated and worn soil, such as is often seen in- 
land from the seashore, will plainly denote its lack 
of nitrogen and potash by the sparse, small and 
weak growth of vegetation thereon. To make this 
soil productive and rich it will require the adding 
of cotton seed meal, a liberal and heavy coat of 
leaves, barnyard manure, straw or some heavy 
organic matter, in large quantities; the plowing of 
them under to decompose and rot, and the additional 
application of a mixed fertilizer, of say 8 per cent 
available acid phosphate, 3 per cent potash and 3 per 
cent nitrate, at the rate of 250 pounds per acre the 

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first year and 300 pounds the second year. From 
thence it can be doubled and tribled with good 
effects, until the soil can be made — by very deep 
plowing, say from 10 to 18 inches deep — so rich and 
productive as any ordinary rich and well tilled soil. 
Sea Air Influence on Soil. 

Now the above described thin, light, poor soil is 
rarely or ever seen in any portion of the country 
where the direct influence of the liquid chemical 
salt-laden atmosphere can be brought to bear on it. 
On the contrary, it will have a heavy, and heavier, 
a more compact and tougher texture, being more 
obdurate, harder to work up into a seed bed. As you 
near the actual seashore beach you will also ob- 
serve great jungles of tanglewood-like, and the most 
gross, heavy and luxuriant growth of vegetation, thus 
denoting the overwhelming quantities of nitrogen- 
ious matter, salts and potash contained in the soil, 
which produces this great profusive and luxuriant 
growth of wild vegetation; but which, without the 
third — or third and fourth elements of chemicals, 
you may say — for, as we have seen, salt is urgently 
necessary — the same rich soil will not produce the 
farm crops so essential to man. 

Correcting the Defect in Coast Soils and Causing 
the Same to Now Be the Means of Produc- 
ing the Largest Crops of the World. 

Now that we know the deficiency and the cause 
of same, and that that same cause is the means of 
this same soil's inordinary richness, we can, by way 
of adding from 250 to 300 pounds of available acid 
phosphate to the acre on the heaviest, most obdurate 
soil to 150 pounds on the lighter ones, with a decided 

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hillside slope, where the water quickly sheds off 
after each rainfall, supply the deficiency of the phos- 
phoric acid made by the stronger chemical, salt, and 
so balance up a complete, rich and abundant propor- 
tion of plant food that, with proper breaking, pulver- 
izing, planting and cultivation, will convert the great 
cause of the defective productiveness hitherto orig- 
inating so much failure, want and losses, and the 
utter overthrow of so many high hopes and anticipa- 
tions, into the great medium of production of the 
largest yield of abundant crops of all that goes to 
feed and clothe animal life and mankind of any land 
in the world not deriving the direct benefits of this 
liquid salt atmosphere of the seashore. Oh! great is 
scientific knowledge. "Knowledge is power" is one of 
the oldest, yet the most true of all Proverbs. 
Preparing the Soil, Etc. 
Now in preparing this land from the raw soil — 
where it has never ben plowed — great care should 
be taken to not plow exceeding the depth of one or 
one and one-half inches the first plowing. The reg- 
ular rod, prairie sod-breaker (walking), cutting 16 
inches, is the most handsome and easiest plow oper- 
ated for this purpose. Carefully follow breaking plow 
with harrow and smoother, pulverizing the soil be- 
fore the furrow has had time to dry out and become 
hard. Four acres done this way will not give as much 
trouble as two acres would if the furrow is per- 
mitted to dry out and become baked before harrow- 
ing and smoothing. The next plowing should be done 
as deep as an ordinary turn plow's capacity— that is, 
to carry a full furrow, not at any time showing any 
part of mold on furrow side while plow is in actual 

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operation — which is most usually from 5 to 8 or 9 
inches deep, and in an ample rainfall country, with 
shallow well water for sub-irrigation and a temperate 
moist climate, is of ample depth for all purposes and 
best results. 

Deep Plowing in Arid Regions. 

As a matter of course in a dry, arid region, with 
sparse rainfall and no irrigation, the deeper the 
plowing, even to as much as 20 inches, and done as 
far ahead of planting time as possible, in order to 
catch and retain all of the sparse rainfall and so 
conserve it as soil moisture, to produce crops in an 
airid country, is urgently necessary, and often in- 
sures an abundant yield, where the cultivation has 
been frequent and the land stirred after every rain 
that would tend to form a crust and so cause quick 
and sure evaporation of the soil moisture, and the 
cultivation done shallow and permitting of loose soil 
to fall back in furrow, and keep same well covered 
and protected from the scorching and fast evaporat- 
ing effects of a hot sun. 

Plowirg in Rainfall Country. 

But deeper plowing than above described in an 
ample rainfall country. — Now, I don't want to be un- 
derstood as advocating mere scratching, etc., of the 
soil, for that is disastrous of any results whatever; — 
but follow the directions as given and the desired 
results will surely follow. The science of it being 
that in an ample rainfall country we sometimes have 
an excessive amount of rain and if the surface rich- 
ness of the soil were turned under, say from 10 to 
20 inches in depth, the fall of water would sink it 
beyond the reach of plant's availability, and so im- 

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poverish the plant life of the crop. I know I am 
right, for I have seen scratching and scraping of 
the soil give disastrous results, and I have also seen 
deeper plowing than neecssary do the same in an 
ample rainfall country. 

Preparing Land for Wheat or Oats, 

The land now being thus prepared, if early in the 
year and for wheat or oats, can have 300 pounds of 
a high-grade acid phosphate — analyzing 14 or 16 per 
cent available acid phosphate drilled in with wheat 
drill 4 or 5 inches in depth, if heavy, level-lying soil. 
If on a decided slope and soil is light, easily worked 
— black sandy or light sandy — 200 pounds of phos- 
phate per acre is sufficient. As before stated, if this 
land is being prepared for wheat or oats, it will now 
be permitted to remain in this condition, with the 
exception of running the disc over it to destroy 
weeds and grass, until September, when it should be 
rebroke, harrowed and smoothed as before described. 
Drill in same amount of acid phosphate 5 or 6 inches 
deep, when it is ready for planting of grain the first 
two weeks in October. When up good and strong, 
say shoe-top deep all over, light pasturing can begin, 
and so on, as plants permit throughout the winter, 
great care being taken to not injure the vitality of 
plant by too close pasturing. As early as seems safe 
in February or March, remove all stock and permit 
of crop growing off and developing its fruit at the 
earliest possibility of time, and thus mature the 
same before the severe early summer drouth, which 
sometimes are in evidence, and cause disease — rust, 
smut, or an imperfect grain, and which the early 

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maturing grain will head off to a great extent in its 
early maturing. 

Now all small grain will be the better for some 
manner of cultivation (to break the crust formed on 
soil by heavy rainstorms in winter and early spring) 
to conserve the moisture for developing and matur- 
ing the grain by permitting of the air to permeate 
the soil through the open and cultivated surface, thus 
permitting the moisture, and chemicals in air of early 
morning and all night to enter the thus opened soil 
by cultivation, and secure a capilliary motion of the 
underground sub-irrigation of shallow water strata 
and sand, with the overground effects; also the 
chemical plant foods of the soil with those of the 
air, thus keeping the ground in an alluvial, loamy 
and live condition and affording ample nourishment 
to the plant, according to its increased demand by 
its vigorous growth and the heavily putting on of 
new fruit to be developed and matured into healthy, 
plump and nutritious grain, which all of this extra 
and wise attention will greatly enhance and insure. 
Wheat and Oats Cultivation. 

The most feasible and profitable tool in ray mind 
for this prupose would be one made as follows: 
Take a drum, or round log, of say 18 inches in diame- 
ter, place three rows of harrow teeth, say to project 
from log 10 inches in length; place rows in serpen- 
tine-like twist in a gradual motion around log, the 
teeth to be of three-quarter inch square iron, sharp- 
ened and placed 12 inches apart in rows and dodged. 
This will make a complete wheat and oats cultivator 
and can be rolled over the wheat after heavy rain- 
storms, that will if left alone tend to form a crust on 

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the soil and so work such disastrous results on 
growing crop. 

Right and Only Proper Way to Prepare Soil. 
Now there are some old true sayings, as follows: 
"Be sure you are right and then go ahead." (Davy 
Crockett.) And another: "There is only way of 
doing a thing for positive and sure success, and tuat 
is the right way." And to here make an indellible 
and lasting impression as to the vital importance of 
the right and only proper way to prepare the soil 
for its great work, I will again enforce my argument 
of following the breaking plow with pulverizer and 
smoother, in order to get this great work properly 
done before the soil moistui-e has been dried out of 
the upturned furrows, which thus being left in a de- 
cided molded form of square brick-like bodies, sepa- 
rated from the parent earth and its most needed 
vital influences of crop-making nutriments contained 
in the bowels thereof, and when circumstances are 
favorable will ever work to the surface those ele- 
ments of plant life so urgently necessary to its vigor- 
ours, flourishing and most thrifty growth and exist- 
ence. Now all of this being debarred and greatly 
hindered by the ignorant and neglectful manner of 
leaving those upturned and separated bodies of sur- 
face soil, containing the great stores of rich plant 
food, to dry, die and lie dormant for an indefinite' 
period of time, awaiting the expected rainfall to en- 
able or make possible the pulverizing and preparing 
of it for the use of plant life, which is often de- 
layed, to the great loss and disastrous detrimentality 
of the successful growing of a vigorous, flourishing 
and healthy crop plant life; and then the tiller of 

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the soil, through his ignorance of the nature of the 
cause of his non-success in producing a desirable 
yield — though he afforded every manner of proper 
cultivation afterwards for the growing crop, will con- 
strue the same to a defective climate, etc. 

Best Harrower and Pulverizer; How Made, Etc. 

Now for the least expensive manner in which to 
do this, and as a furtherance of this great work of 
successful farming, I will outline the contrivance of 
the greatest pulverizing machine or implement I ever 
saw, viz: Take two pieces of 4x4 timber (good 
tough, heavy pine will answer all right) of 5-foot 
length, join together, rafter fashion, at a one-quarter 
pitch angle, which can be obtained by laying of rse 
square on the timber with four-inch mark on tongue 
of square and twelve-inch mark of body of square 
being even with inside edge of timber; mark the 
left-hand or tongue side of line; saw and join to- 
gether as rafters would be; lay the same on a level 
ground; now secure a piece of 2x4 of same length 
as the former two pieces of timber will make in 
width; lay the same just abreast and in front of the 
angle-like shaped 4x4's; now get some 2x4 bcuff, cut 
in sufficient lengths to reach from 4 inches abreast 
of 2x4 in front of 4x4 angle-formed pieces and to the 
rear of same sufficient to include a 1x12 in. boxing 
plank at an angle of 4 — IS on tongue and blade of 
square; now nail on 18-inch piece of 2x4, flat side 
on, to the 4 — 16 or 18-inch in angle edge end of 
short 2x4 pieces with angle turned down; get a 1x12 
box plank, lay along on ground just behind the 4x4 
pieces; now lay the short 2x4 pieces (four in num- 
ber) at equal distances across from 2x4 long piece 

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in front to 1x12 plank in rear, with angle made hy 
nailing short 2x4 pieces flat side down to angle of 
4—16 or 18-inch on edge of 2x4 reaching across with 
angle turned down and 1x12 tox plank nailed to 
under side, box plank being just in rear of 4x4's and 
reaching across to the same width of same. This 
being done, now bore holes for harrow teeth, 10 
inches apart, in 4x4's, drive same in with some 8 or 
10-inch in length of tooth, extending down to soil; 
the 4-inch surplus ends of crosspieces now being 
fitted with devise for attachment of team. It is now 
ready for operation. Two heavy animals, one to 
each end of pulverizer, have worked it satisfactorily; 
but a double team can be as readily hitched on, and 
with ample weight being put on it, is the greatest 
pulverizer and seed-bed preparing machine, follow- 
ing the breaking plow and doing the same before 
moisture has dried out, that could be or ever was 
invented. The harrow teeth in front catching the 
separated and upturned furrows before they have 
been permitted to dry out, tear them to pieces, and 
the 1x12 or 14-inch box plank just in rear of teeth^ 
set in split-log drag fashion, of pulverizer and 
smoother, catches the torn up chunks of moist soil 
and grinds, pulverizes and smoothes them into the 
most perfect seed bed form of conserved moisture 
and liquid plant food easily available and of absorp- 
tion to seed when planted and to crop plants when 
ushered into existence; thus affording it the required 
nourishment that the exhilerating, ideal climate will 
cause a demand for, and if forthcoming and abun- 
dantly supplied will cause plant life to reap the full 
benefit of; as did man, whose increased demand for 

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nourishing and flesh producing food was supplied in 
full and sufficient quantities, without question or 
dispute. Now I think and fj&el confident that I have 
made this most vital and important feature plain and 
easy of comprehension to one and all. 

Now the foregoing preparation of the soil will 
answer for one and all kinds of crops, with a little 
special directions for the slightly different manner 
of the utilizing of same for that purpose. If land is 
wanted to be planted in other kinds of crops besides 
small grain and can be prepared the fall before, or 
even in the winter months, I would advise the same 
manner of preparation — phosphates and all — and let 
it lay in that condition until February. 

For Corn. 

If for corn, and the party has riding planter with 
lister in front, remove lister and replace with an 
8-inch heavy shovel plow; use planter for phosphates 
distributer; lay off corn rows with riding planter 
3 1-2 feet apart; have shovel open furrow of suffi- 
cient d«pth to permit of planter putting phosphates 
in from .5 to 7 inches in depth; drill in an additional 
200 pounds per acre with smoother in action behind 
covering plows of planter. When done it is now 
ready for the planting of corn. Place one bushel of 
seed «orn in a box or tub; pour two tablespoonfuls 
of coal star over the same; take the end of an old 
broom handle, stir energetically until every grain 
has tar over it; sift a double handful of dry ashes 
into it and stir until tar is well covered and will 
permit of handling without soiling of hands. This 
will protect the seed from any possible destruction 

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by insects and the raids of birds while coming up. 
Cultivation Properly Done, Etc. 
Thin corn to one stalk two feet apart in drill, 
strictly; cultivate properly, always keeping all storm 
1\ crusts well pulverized as soon after each rain as 
; land will permit until corn is safely made, and keep- 
ing the furrows in cultivating well covered with 
.,j loose soil, and so conserve moisture from evapora- 
I tion. 

Fop Cotton. 

If cotton is to be planted, remove planter and only 
use the lister, plowing a deep, full furrow every four 
I feet; keep these elevated beds between furrows 
smoothed nicely with smoothing implement, but not 
to leveling down any more than can be ivoided. 
When done the land is ready for drilling in of phos- 
phates by planter, with 8-inch shovel as per corn, 
formerly; only this is now to be done on the ele- 
vated beds; and planting of cotton begun near the 
first of April, always keeping smoother behind every 
upheaval of soil; give cotton one good cultivation 
with shovel cultivator. I absolutely discard all disc 
plows for cultivation, owing to their leaving the fur- 
rows bare and unprotected from too quick evapora- 
tion of soil moisture. Then with hoe thin to one stalk 
every 18 inches; cultivate again, always keeping a 
nice loamy high bed around cotton by plowing a 
deep furrow with 18 or 20-inch sweep in center of 
middle, permitting of furrow being well covered with 
loose soil behind the plow. Now thin cotton with hoe 
to one stalk in hill, 3 or 3 1-2 feet apart in row; 
cultivate well, all weeds and grass out, and at all 

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times have the soil of a fresh, loose and live appear- 
ance. 

Cotton Insects; Boll Weevil. 

During the first forty days after plant begins 
putting on of forms and blooms, if the boll weevil 
is causing any falling off of same, they should be 
— strictly — all picked up and burned. Now this is 
not as big a job as it at first sounds, for any smart 
little fellow or hand can do it, and go over from 15 
to 25 acres per day, when cotton is small, taking 
six or eight rows at a time and get everything clean. 
In summer if any insect pests of the cotton are in 
evidence, take of paris green one part, flour one 
part, and hydrated or slack lime three parts; make 
two sacks, out of burlap or grain sacks, of 1 1-2 gal- 
lons capacity; after the above ingredients have been 
thoroughly stirred and mixed, so as to appear all of 
one color, fill bags and' tie one to each end of a light, 
stiff pole or stick (a light quilting frame answers 
fine). "Early in the morning, w^hen the dew is on the 
cotton, take the pole in front of you on a horse and 
ride through the cotton, taking four rows at a time, 
continually shaking or jarring pole sufficiently to 
cause the emission of a fog or dust from bags that 
will gently float over and through the cotton, and 
remaining on same, will be the means of ridding 
same of all insects, including that most destructive 
cotton- plague — the cotton boll weevil; and as this is 
the first and only effective remedy for that purpose, 
it is of the highest value to all cotton countries. 
Demonstration of Test. 

It was fully demonstrated and proven in this coun- 
try this last season, and kept cotton blooming and 

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making until its full quota of bolls were developed 
and matured, or until frost; and I more fully had 
demonstrating evidence of its efficacy as a true rem- 
edy in my own experimental experience by leaving 
of some cotton in, and adjoining the other that was 
fully treated. The cotton not treated was practically 
a failure and had only a very few and scattering 
bolls, while the other that was treated had a full 
and abundant quota of bolls; so that this valued 
moneyed crop now is practically safe and fully pro- 
tected from all of its many insect pests and ravages 
that created so much discord, uneasiness, expense, 
waste and loss, and with my exposition and defining 
of science and nature and the outlines of my scien- 
tific but plain and easy to follow instructions, that 
crop can now be grown and produced as it never has 
before and could be without this learned knowledge. 
This same means of making a whole and complete 
soil will answer for all manner of crops; for all crop 
plant life, to thrive and grow to the limit of their 
capacity, require the combination as a whole, and in 
perfect order, all of the three or four chemical plant 
foods contained in a whole, complete and well bal- 
anced and productive soil; and when sufficient moist- 
ure, proper planting — and in the proper time — 
proper cultivation and all at proper times to avoid 
waste of soil moisture and the non-availability of the 
rich plant foods to properly feed and nourish the 
plant, are all in evidence. 

Proper Drainage, Etc. 
The next important feature of making a success 
of all the above is proper drainage of the crop plant 
soil. To do that in the least expensive and most suc- 

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cessful manner is the purpose of the rules herein 
~^iven. Where a body of land has a decided slope or 
Tall to some one of its many sides, and the same is 
figlitly determined, a system of ditches sufficient to 
convey all standing water from and off the soil, is 
all that is required; hut with a large body of abso- 
lutely level lying land with -depresisons upon sur- 
face, the drainage or disposition of the surplus water 
is indeed quite a serious problem, and one that is a 
most wonder working puzzle to the owners and 
prospective inhabitants, who wish to utilize the same. 
This can be done, however, and the same can 
be made most valuable agraicultural soil. (For man 
can drain a level lying land and make it conductive 
of great possibilities in agriculture and an everlast- 
ing and durable soil, indestructible by time or tem- 
perature; but he can not level down and fill in a 
hilly and washed land and accomplish the same re- 
sults.) Now where a body of land is very level and 
flat, a man can by locating the lowest sinks upon 
its surface and the putting down, by digging and 
curbing, or boring and curbing — or still again, the 
driving of pipe-wells to the water sand or strata that 
most usually can be found and does underlie the 
surface of those lands, at the shallow depth of only 
from 8, 10, 12 to 25 or 30 feet, and thus afford a quick, 
effective and sure system of drainage of those lands, 
and at a much lower cost than the usual mode Of 
tiling, etc., heretofore resorted to and practiced, and 
that was so costly in the performance of as to be 
altogether impracticable to the ordinary man not of 
the most liberal means. Now, as a matter of course, 
those means as a sink drainage will all have to be 

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shown the proper and requisite amount of attention, 
as all systems of drainage do and are shown for the 
proper keeping in repair and working order their 
most efficient means of drainage. When first made 
the bottom and top ends of curbs or pipe should be 
well protected from the too quick clogging of water 
sinking propensities by the filling in of coarse sand 
and particles of soil, by a sufficient screening of 
same with a very fine meshed article of screen wire, 
well protected from corosion and decay by painting 
of same with some good water-proof paint or coal 
tar, the tar being applied in a boiling condi- 
tion, when pipe has been driven down to 
well water, using the customary drive well pipe 
with point and seive or strainer on end to enter 
ground. When same has been driven to the water 
below there should be an 18-inch depth of 3-foot 
square hole made with top of pipe in center and 
about ten inches in height from bottom of hole. Now 
with top of pipe well screened and 2x12 pieces of 
lumber nicely laid over the 3-foot square hole, the 
drainage system of that cesspool, slough or mud hole 
or particular body of flat land is complete, and the 
land well prepared as per directions afore stated 
will be the richest and most productive of farm land 
and the hibernating and producing causes of the 
fatal charbon and other poisonous and disease bear- 
ing and annoying insects forever put an end to and 
exterminated. 

Now this, most valuable cheap and efficient mode 
of drainage has been open to me for suggestion of 
successful practice by open demonstration in one 
instance, by the taking of a trip through old Ken- 

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tucky in another. In going through certain portions 
of that State of certain natural wonders that no other 
country contains, one will observe great open ex- 
cavations upon the surface of a part of its country — 
as though large open and empty surface tanks or 
ponds, with no possible outlet for water accumulat- 
ing in those seemingly open receptacles for same, 
through excessive rainfall or otherwise. My trip was 
made just at the expiration of an excessive rainfall 
season in that country. The rivers and all streams 
were all swollen- to their full capacity of holding 
their waters within their proper bounds and meet; 
but not a gallon of water was visible in those open 
receptacle, tank-like apertures. A profesisonal man 
boarded the train at some wayside station, and I 
made it convenient, in the ordinary run of conversa- 
tion, to learn of this, to me, most mystifying occur- 
rence, or break in nature, the non-visible appear- 
ance of any water whatever in these seemingly open 
and empty tanks or ponds. He explained to me that 
the water sank through the bottom, and that those 
open receptacles, with a capacity to hold many, many 
millions of gallons or barrels of water, and that 
were not only at all times void of the least appear- 
ance of same, but were clothed with a most healthy 
and luxuriant growth of vegetation and plant life, 
were known to the people of the country as sink 
holes. Now, there is the whole thing in a nutshell: 
Those deep, open and empty tanks either extended 
down to the underground water sands or streams, or 
to just above some other open-mouthed receptacle, 
for all the surface water falling in, and so conveyed 
to them through this non-failing source of same. 

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Knowledge is power. Through the attaining of scien- 
tific knowledge by the inventory genius of our 
country, and the putting of it in practical form by 
them, is the cause and support cf our most advanced 
stage of civilization, and the contriving and produc- 
tion of so much convenience and comfort as the 
population of today are enjoying, and without which 
gold, money or any other separate means v/ould not 
have and could not have produced. 

Farm Animals; the Horse, Etc. 
Now all the foregoing, demonstrating how to at- 
tain a high perfection in all manner of plant life, to 
the furtherance of man's happiness and prosperity. 
The next is how to keep, have and grow all of the 
farm animals, on the success of which man's happi- 
ness, comfort and prosperity so much depends, and 
the which my learned exposition and defining of 
science and nature will portend to the attainment of. 
The horse is the nearest, in comparison, to man, as 
the companion and co-laborer in all of life's duties, oc- 
occupations and callings, of the other farm animals r 
and hence their greater demand for their master's 
attention and proper care of, and ofr their health,, 
comfort and successful existence in any and all parts 
of the world where man and horse are called upon 
to inhabit and occupy. Horses' systems, like man's, 
are greatly influenced by change of climate, and will 
undergo all of the several and changeable influences 
of the same that man experiences; but w^ho always 
hitherto or heretofore was not supposed to do so, 
hence the disastrous effects and losses of that poor 
fellow's comfort, and to the wner and master. Take 
man and set him here, under the great producing 

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influences of this lifluid chemical salt atmosphere of 
the seashore country, of an increased appetite and 
demand for more concentrated and nourishing food, 
and furnishing, of, it more abundantly and in a njore 
generous supply, and keep him most sedulously e^m- 
ployed in hard grinding down of and life absorbing 
toils (as the horse is, in many instances, and with- 
out the increased supply of nourishment and more 
concentrated foods, such as oats, wheat bran, shorts 
and good corn in abundant and liberal supply, as 
his increased vigor and appetite calls for) and give 
him a meagre ration with small percentage of nour- 
ishment and nutriment, to satisfy this life sapping 
increase of appetite, and instead of the happy results 
now manifested in man in this health giving sea- 
shore atmosphere we would often witness the disas- 
trous results in man, alike, as we have in the horse; 
where if the horse had received nourishment in ac- 
cordance and as man did the happy results of the 
invigorating and life giving seashore atmosphere 
would have been alike in both instances. 
Effects of Sea Air on the Horse. 
Those truths have been demonstrated to me in the 
highest sense of the word and are indisputable facts. 
But, as will be seen in other parts of this book, I 
have stated before, through inavoidable causes or 
reasons the horse may become debilitated and con- 
tract disease, peculiarly attendant on the acclimat- 
ing of horses to a strong sea air climate, and the 
which has at all times proved fatal to animals af- 
fected; and the locating of which causes, name of 
sickness and any possible preventive and cure has 
been so incomprehensible and impossible, even to 

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our most learned veterinery surgeons, witti ev^ry 
facility and means for investigation and experiimen- 
tal diagnosis, etc., and then admit their utter defeat 
and inability to fathom th6- mysterious disease "or 
diseases; for I have had it to attacl? horses in more 
farms than one; and up to this last year in the early 
spring, and nearing what has successfully proved 
the accomplishing and complete finishing of this 
study of the seashore country's climate, etc, arid of 
science and nature, and the most complete exposi- 
tion and defining thereof, has in every instance 
proved fatal and the complete loss of all animals so 
aifected. I have already given a part of the cause 
o fthis trouble in our most faithful friend, the horse, 
in the foregoing comparison of man and horse, un- 
der the same conditions of feed and nourishment, 
under the influence of the liquid chemical salt at- 
mosphere of the sea; but I will enlarge on it more 
fully as to its effects with and on the horse. 
Properties of Salt, Etc. 

Now, as salt has in its dissolved liquid chemical 
form of sea water, great, permeating, solvency, seda- 
tive, stimulative and astringent properties, we will 
see at a glance now that we understand the situa- 
tion. 

Nervous System, Etc. 

How it reacts on the entire nervous system, and 
vitality of the horse, and all the animal kingdom. 
The nervous system of all animal life stands in the 
same respect to it that steam does to the life of all 
steam power machinery; the nerve power, or force, 
of the animal is the means by which every muscle, 
sinew, tissue, and fibre of the animal's working 



force, power and senses; its powerful strength of 
action, sight, smell, feeling, hearing, tasting, feeding, 
digestion, and all the working of the interior organs 
and functions that makes blood, flesh, and all the 
tissues of the animal's anatomony, brain, reasoning, 
and thinking faculties. Now take an animal — man 
or beast — that will, in a high altitude, of thin, lax- 
itive influences,- on the nerves, be highly nervous, 
and unstrung, when moving; will do so, with all the 
increase of speed, and action, and power contained 
in their physique, if not restrained by some other 
power or means foreign to their own, until they will 
actually drop, or be compelled to stop, through com- 
plete exhaustion of their physical capacity, thus de- 
noting the unbalanced and weakened condition of 
the nerve force, of the system; for the want of a 
sedative, and stimulative tonic — either in feed or 
diet — or the atmosphere of the climate. Now the 
converting influence of the sea atmosphere, of so 
much of their diet of nourishment, for the body, into 
nerve tonic, that if additional liberal supplies, of 
nourishment for the physic, are not forthcoming, a 
perceptible weakness of the same, will be in evi- 
dence, and a very poor quality of blood, or a debili- 
tated condition thereof, will ensue; which will lay 
open the system, for the contraction of diseases, 
such as great debilitation, fever or blood poison, 
which in each and every case will prove fatal, if the 
cause, symptoms, and proper treatment are not 
known, all of which I am giving in this wonderful 
exposition and defining of science and nature. 
Diseases of Horse in Acclimating and Treatment. 
I will treat this subject in two clauses, for there 

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are two distinct and separate sicknesses or diseases 
of the horse in this category of casualties. Producing 
cause, first, which is a fever, very weakening and 
fast producing of great emaciation fatalities, and 
the death of the animal so affected. When horse or 
mule is becoming affected with this trouble, they 
will exhibit great signs of weariness; will be lazy, 
sluggish, and of very little life, or inclination to 
move; will lose flesh very fast, and will, at every 
stop, show an inclination to sleep, and with hanging 
head and lopped ears appear as thought fast asleep, 
when the opportunity is afforded in or by way of a 
stop or halt in their work. They will in the last 
stages also have no inclination to eat, and will with 
their feed trough and manger full of feed, directly 
in front of, and easily available, prefer standing, 
with head down and ears lopped, sound asleep. Upon 
the touch of the animal's body by the hand, it is 
easily discernible that his temperature is high, and 
has fever. 

Treatment: Put 22 drops of tincture of aconite 
root into a teaspoon; grasping a firm hold of under 
jaw with one hand, thrust spoon inside of mouth, 
and as far back as possible; overturn the same 
there, leaving all of the medicine on top of back 
part of tongue, and in the glands of mouth, at the 
same time releasing hold of jaw. The animal will in 
a few minutes show some signs of interest, and will 
most probably commence eating. If done at night, 
repeat the dose in the morning and next evening. 
The next morning give dose of blue vitrol, as per for 
botts; which see, now let animal have ten days or 
two or three weeks rest, with run of pasture lot. 

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Feed well and judiciously, on wheat bran,- oats and 
corn, as a well balanced ration, three tiems a day, 
with small portion of some good stock food or pow- 
ders in feed at night. 

The second trouble of and following acclimating 
is show up as blood poison, and appears about, over 
and on some parts, or part, of the animal's anatomy, 
in swollen places, or lumps, under the skin, in vari- 
oi|S shapes and sizes. Sometimes the sheath only 
will be swelled; but more often on some under part 
of animal; from under jaw, neck, or under belly, 
maybe inside of hind legs, from hock upwards. This 
all denotes and is caused by a debilitated condition 
of the system. The blood being poor and impover- 
ished, in quality, fails to, and does not, circulate 
properly through body, to replenish the wear and 
tear of same and so becomes stagnated about in 
places, decomposing and breaking through the skin, 
and causing running sores, of unsightly appearance 
and foul smelling in odor; the animal all the while 
eating heartily, or most generally does, but becoming 
more meaciated in appearance and losing flesh rap- 
idly. The same treatment as for the preceding 
trouble will answer for this also — only that two 
doses of the aconite are required, while the tonic of 
blue vitrol and soda should be kept up morning and 
night for two days, and then only at night for a 
week, or until skin is showing a favorable appear- 
ance of healing, and becoming sound, and in normal 
condition. Peed as before, etc. 

All Sores, Etc. 

Now for all rope burns, nail in foot, wounds, wire 
cuts, etc., and saddle and harness sores, a running 

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fistula, or poll evil, I use a tablespoonful of finely 
pulverized bluestone in four times as much .wa|:er, 
or less if severe wound, more if only slight, ^^T." 
Fistula, Etc. 

For fistula, when newly appearing as a lump, on 
top of horse's wethers, Kendall's Spavin Cure, and 
another liminent. Silver Pine Healing Oil; each being 
rubbed on separately and thoroughly, twice daily, 
until lump disappears; have been successfully used 
for this trouble, removing same and leaving withers 
in natural condition and appearance. 

Poll evil and spavin, ditto. 

Charbon, Etc. 

Now there is one disease to be feared, and fenced 
from, with greatest of particular care and caution; 
and the prevention of any animal ever being 
stricken with it is insured; and as the animal only 
survives the attack of the disease a few minutes, or 
at the most two hours, there is no remedy. This 
trouble is known as charbon (pronounced "share- 
bene" or "sharr bone"), and has in years past had 
the most particular care, investigation, and diagnosis 
given it by most learned and scientific medical ex- 
perts, who discovered the cause to be in the drinking 
of water from foul, fetid, and almost exhausted, sur- 
face ponds or pools; over and located in pasture, or 
range. Through inspection of this thick and fetid 
water by aid of a most strong and efficient micro- 
scope it was discovered to contain millions and mill- 
ions of the most minute specimens of animalcular 
existence — invisible only through this means — the 
which, in resemblance, were likened to the split end 
of a horse hair, or the barbed point of a most minute 

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fish hook; from which they derived their name, for 
in their manner of attack, after animal has drank of 
the water, they plough — as a share — through every 
minute recess cf animal's system, blood, bone and 
flesh, and shortly infect the heart, which is most 
usually accomplished before animal departs from 
infected water hole; and if great numbers of ani- 
mals water at those places, — and are accustomed 
to doing so — after the water becomes infected, great 
numbers of them will be found dead and actually 
heaped up in those receptacles of death-dealing prop- 
erties. As a matter of course it is plain to see the 
preventive is most feasible and sure; by the abolish- 
ing, by using my sink well drainage system, of this 
most disastrous mode of water supply, and the insti- 
tuting of a clear, pure and healthful one; while the 
trouble, atfer attack, has no successful treatment, 
and such is as impossible as if the animal had been 
struck with the death-dealing current of a flash of 
lightning. 

Purposes of This Work and Book. 
Now it will be seen that those two great causes of 
disturbance, expense and worry, of not only the 
people but our Government, have been studied out — 
charbon in stock and boll weevil in cotton — and in 
this exposition and defining of science and nature 
have been elaborately dwelt on, and most success- 
fully treated, along with other most important and 
necessary knowledge, and of equally as undefinable 
subjects, to the people and Government. I have here 
outlined a course of instructions and knowledge that 
will now furnish to the people ample and most suffi- 
cient information to enable them to now build up 

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and thoroughly establish for themselves most profit- 
able, self-sustaining and prosperous, beautiful farm 
homes in this hitherto most improbable lands of the 
seashore countries of the world. Government of the 
countries in which those lands are situated has been 
throughout the long ages past, and are now, making 
the most Herculean efforts, by way of employing 
scientific experts, and the expenditures of millions 
of money, to this very thing; — not in entirety — but 
the successful growing of cotton alone, as a profit- 
able and paying crop, and to which, according to my 
last information, the success of same is as far from 
accomplishment as when they began; while my most 
.successfully completed and finished study of a long, 
arduous twenty-two years' duration has determined 
most successsfully all of the assertions herein made, 
as the most indisputable and unquestionable facts — 
glorious, comfort, and wealth producing facts. 

Now, I will enter a humane plea for that com- 
panion, and most faithful friend, to man, of all the 
animal kingdom — the horse — and give a few well- 
tried, proven and true remedies for his most prev- 
alent, pain-producing, and fatal diseases; and these 
most finished and complete results of my hard oc- 
cupancy of the inventor's seat for twenty-two years 
will be brought to a happy finish and close. Trust- 
ing that good will bless it to the prosperity, comfort 
and happiness of the millions and millions of people 
for whom it was invented and gotten up. 

Humane Plea for the Horse and Treatment. 

The horse— that much abused of all the animal 
kingdom. First, by ignorance: Most people think 
he is strong as a horse; and their exaggerated views 

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of that amount of strength would do credit to a road 
engine; when in truth the horse in strength and 
vitality compares with man about twelve or fifteen 
to one. For instance, take a very strong -medicine, 
dangerous to give in a large dose, and given too 
frequently; if twenty-five drops is the limit for the 
horse, and four hours apart, two drops will be the 
limit for man, and given the same; and will have 
equal effects on both. Again they think because he 
is a horse — an animal — is not man of the animal 
kingdom? — the quality of the medicine or the way 
of treatment with it should in no way be compared 
with man in its purity, cleanliness or quality of 
drugs, or in the gentle, humane manner in which it 
is, or should be, administered to the poor, helpless 
creature, entirely at the mercy of his master — the 
man; and often he suffers untold miseries, and 
even death, through this ignorant, brutal manner in 
treating of him. He is a horse — a brute — they think, 
when of the two, man is the brute and the horse 
the humane — and they give him screw worm medi- 
cine — blueing — indigo — or any old thing; don't stop 
to think as to its being a proper medicine for in- 
ternal treatment, or if it would be proper to admin- 
ister it internally to yourself, only, twelve t^mes 
less in quantity. No, you are no horse; but, the horse 
is an animal, as yourself; has same blood, bones, in- 
sides alike, lungs, liver, heart, stomach, kidneys, 
intestines, etc.; runs, sees, feels, tastes, and smells; 
in fact, has every iota of the fine animal make-up 
as yourself, nerves, brains, reasoning powers, mem- 
ory, and a fine instinct and intellect. He talk? his 
language; you talk yours. His fine sense of under- 

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standing and smart intellect enables him to learn 
and understand yours; but many times the man is 
so dull in intellect he can not learn and understand 
the- horse in his language. Now, all of this reason- 
ing I have put forth here is for a purpose, and that 
purpose is to try to teaeh a more humane and self- 
reasoning propensity, to always do unto the horse 
as you would have others dp unto you. When sick 
give him pure, gentle, clean medicine, and treat- 
ment; do not pour it down his nose, destroying his 
fine sense of smell and almost strangling him; ad- 
minister the same to him in a proper manner. If he 
will not eat it with his meal at feeding, put it in a 
bottle, and raising his head and nostrils, elevated 
sufficiently, empty or pour the medicine gently and 
slowly in his mouth, giving him time to swallow 
same without waste or danger of strangling. When 
driving, riding or working him, when he is showing 
signs of heat, fatigue, weakness or great weari- 
ness, in place of pouring the lash or whip to him, 
keeping him going, or to go faster, thus taxing his 
strength and vitality, to within an ace of his life 
(which is the main cause of so many very sluggish 
and lazy teams today; their natural given strength 
of vitality, of which in his original nature he was 
supplied with a large, sufficient quantity, stored for 
to be drawn from, as his natural vigorous life should 
require the same; and if treated and used in his 
work and labor in a reasonable and humane manner, 
it never fails to do so; and the animal always has 
good life and vitality; will drive, ride or do his work 
willingly; start up at command, or move with an 
increase of speed, with very little urging; while on 

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the other hand, if when this store of vitality and 
endurance is overtaxed, or drawn upon too severely, 
by overdriving or riding, or kept on tugging away 
at the heavy load he is drawing, or the heavy plow- 
ing, when he is almost at the end of his endurance 
and ready to drop with tireof limb and body, and 
where if his amster could see and perceive the 
same, and in a humane and feeling manner would 
stop the pulling, and load, just a short two minutes, 
to permit of him to catch up in a short rest, his 
almost exhausted working powers, his fine store of 
power and endurance would not be overdrawn, and 
system overtaxed; and the same good, powerful, 
quick and willing animal would be preserved for 
another day's usefulness and many days as good and 
willing, even to old age; when used inhumanely, and 
overtaxed, they become unwilling, weak and trifling, 
lazy, and altogether a very tiresome animal to have 
to use. when, poor fellow, it is none of his fault; 
but of the unfeeling one, who used up his store of 
vitality by imprudent driving of and working him. 
Be merciful to your team and horse; know that he 
has feeling, and a limit to his endurance which must 
be taken careful note of, and be preserved by proper 
use of the animal while at work. An animal properly 
used, fed and cared for, seldom ever contracts dis- 
ease. But sometimes one can not always be in posi- 
tion to do this; for instance, one may not be at home 
at feeding time, or he may be in a rush of work, so 
much so that the horse, as well as himself, is un- 
usually taxed. At such times he may contract a 
most quick and fatal sickness. 

The purpose of these remedies and instructions of 

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tlie horse and all farm animals is to enable the 
owner to give the poor fellow relief, and save his life, 
for further usefulness, as has been done with these 
treatments in many instances. They are all true 
and tried; and followed as per -directions, will be 
effective, to the saving of the animal in every case. 
Colic; Cause, Symptoms and Treatment. 

This is a very painful, acute, quick-acting sick- 
ness and relief must be found very quick or fatal 
results will follow in many instances. It is con- 
tracted in several ways. If the horse should become 
immersed bodily in a deep pond while he is warm 
from work, it is almost a sure producer of the worst 
form of colic. If drinking too heartily while warm, 
he will colic. Sometimes overeating produces it. 
From whatever the cause may be, it must be treated 
immediately. 

Symptoms. When first stricken the horse will 
show signs of great uneasiness; will move restlessly 
.about, knuckling his legs as if about to lie down sev- 
eral times before he will finally do so. The first 
few times he will immediately get up on his feet 
again, only to lie down again; in fact, he all the 
while shows the greatest nervous excitement, until 
as the sickness becomes more severe he will lie 
down and viciously roll, turning his head to his 
side as if pointing out the place of misery. At this 
stage swelling of the sides may be noted; if not, 
will shortly thereafter. To ascertain positively that 
it is the colic and not the bots, feel of the ears. If 
they are cold, colic is assuredly the case; if warm, 
and no swelling is visible, bots may be the trouble. 

Treatment. Put two large tablespoonfuls of tur- 

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pentine into a pint of water that has had laundry 
soap to about the size of one-half of a guinea egg or 
less shaved and . dissolved in the water; drench 
through mouth with head elevated by bridle thrown 
over a limb or beam and drawing up of mouth of 
sufficient height to keep medicine from wasting from 
mouth; rub and press the throat to cause swallow- 
ing. Relief will follow in a few minutes. When it 
does no further treatment is needed. I have never 
failed of one treatment being a cure. 
Bots, Etc. 

This trouble is caused by a short and sectional 
grub-looking worm (in appearance something like a 
young wasp still in the home cell of nest and before 
he begins to take shape), which attacks the wall of 
the stomach. The cause of which is generally the 
derangement of the horse's system by sudden 
change of diet, such as from an ordinary diet of 
corn or grain and grass to an all-grain feed, which 
causes gases to form in stomach, which greatly dis- 
turbs the bot, thus causing same to attack walls of 
stomach and eat its way through the same, if not 
prevented by proper treatment. 

Symptoms. Are almost same as in colic, only the 
ears are warm and the horse not quite so excited in 
his actions. He will appear sick at first, and lie 
down as if to rest. After a short time he will begin 
to roll and reach head around to sides, and probably 
bite his flanks. There is no swelling of abdomen in 
bots. 

Treatment. If away from home where medicine 
is not available or at hand, they can be relieved for 
the time (and I have done it and they never re- 

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turned) by gently and slowly rubbing the animal 
with hand from and along neck and side back to 
about half way of body, as if to keep him quiet, 
mumbling in a low, soothing voice all the while to 
cause a complete quiet and relaxed condition of 
nerves and animal. When in exact position to do so 
(which is about half way between front and back 
girths, and just under and beneath the sides) sud- 
denly and with full force bring the knee up against 
the horse's stomach. Do this on both sides of the 
horse once or twice to the side. The jar of this sud- 
den and forceful stroke, given when the horse is 
perfectly relaxed and not expecting same, so jars 
the whole system, and especially the stomach, that 
it completely knocks the bots loose from the walls 
of the stomach and so relieves the animal very com- 
pletely. In many instances they do not return, or 
will not until the next derangement of the horse's 
system as aforementioned. Wehn they do give the 
proper medical treatment. 

Treatment. Take a small piece of blue vitrol 
(bluestone, as most commonly called) about twice 
or three times the size of a black-eyed pea (or half 
teaspoonful of finely pulverized) pulverize very fine 
and put in a strong necked bottle (a beer bottle is 
proper) ; add two heaping tablespoonfuls of baking 
soda and one-half or one pint of water, shake well 
and drench through pouring in mouth. Turn loose 
and feed well on good grain and grass or clean, nice 
hay. No other doping or treatment will be needed, 
or should be permitted, as it sometimes, and in 
nearly every instance, proves fatal; while this treat- 
ment has never proven a failure in a single instance 

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in the run of thirty-seven years' use, and has saved 
scores of good animals where certain death would 
have been the case and was where this treatment 
was not used. 

Founder or Laminitis. ' 

Causes. Are from long, hard driving, overfeeding 
of grain or alfalfa or any concentrated feed, or eat- 
ing when very hungry, or too much water when very 
thirsty. Feed and water properly and this disease 
will never appear. I never foundered an animal in 
my forty-five years' experience of owning, using and 
dealing in horses and mules, from a $1.50 inferior 
specimen to a $5000 fine specimen of imported 
French Coach, Scotch-Clydesdale, Percheron and 
fancy saddlers. 

Symptoms. Are universally the same, as the mis- 
ery is almost entirely in the front feet, and if not 
relieved will continue for balance of life, so becom- 
ing chronic. I just completed a treatment the last 
short while that is a crack shot, as proven by par- 
ties I co-operated with and myself. I purchased a 
very nice mule with some fourteen months or more 
standing of chronic founder, and relieved and cured 
the same, thus making a useful animal out of a most 
useless creature. When animal is discovered suffer- 
ing from this trouble he will appear to be in great 
misery, and be very much drawn in appearance, the 
seat of the trouble plainly proving to be in his fore- 
parts, from shoulders down to and including front 
feet. Animal wil stand as if making all efforts to 
throw the stress of his weight on his hind feet, and 
I have seen in very severe cases (and where they 
had been repeated several times in the same ani- 

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mal), the poor animal rise up on his hind feet and 
paw the air with his front feet in his vain efforts to 
find relief. 

Treatment. And the only sure and entirely effect- 
ive one I have ever discovered, or that is in use to- 
day,' as all treatises on the horse that I have ever 
seen claim there is no cure for chronic founder: 
Pick up the front foot of animal, clean out bottom 
and frog thoroughly; pour spirits of turpentine well 
over the same, getting it well in all the crevices 
around the frog. Now, having a sharp knife, make 
a vertical incision just over the top of hoof (being 
careful to not touch or injure hoof) on outside and 
three-quarters of distance back from front of foot, 
sufficient to permit of the thorough bleeding of the 
foot. After bleeding apparently enough for complete 
relief, saturate parts with turpentine. Within a suf- 
ficient, humane length of time for recuperating from 
the trouble and treatment, the animal will be found 
to be all right and ready for active business. 
AbsceC'3 of the Brain (or Commonly Known as 
Blind Staggers). 

Causes. Overdriving and work when very warm 
weather exists, and exposure to a very hot sun, when 
animal is excessively fat, or when they are being 
fed exclusively on corn or some very ocncentrated 
and heat-producing diet. Feed a well-balanced ration 
of good meadow hay or grass with the grain, be 
merciful and humane in the use of your stock, and 
you will never, or rarely so, have a stagger case. 
(Have never had one of my own keeping.) 

Symptoms. As this affection is entirely of the 
brain, the seat of sickness can be easily located. It is 

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in horse as brain fever is in man. The horse at first 
will show very plainly he is sick, and as the disease 
advances will become very restless and appear blind, 
butting his head against fences, etc.; and if lying 
down do the same if any objects are in his reach, 
even slamming his head against the ground with 
great force (poor fellow!), thus greatly injuring 
himself in vain efforts to relieve himself of the 
splitting headache he is enduring, caused by an ex- 
cessive supply of water on the brain, or corruption. 
Treatment. Cast horse on ground and secure his 
feet by tieing hog fashion; lay his head flat on 
ground; place a 1x12 plank across the neck and 
head, by which means, with sufficiently enough as- 
sistance, the animal's head can be held still and 
quiet while one can shave the hair from directly 
over the brain (which lies upward from a line drawn 
across the head just above the hollow sink over eyes 
of animal) ; place a poultice of cantherides (or fly 
blister) made by spreading same on heavy wrap- 
ping paper and sufficiently large to cover the brain; 
place this poultice nakedly, or without any covering 
between same and the skin, directly over the same, 
pressing well on with hand; bandage to avoid being 
displaced; allow to remain for two or three hours, 
or until animal appears to be relieved; remove 
poultice, and when blister develops clip and dress 
with cotton batting; give twenty drops of tincture 
of aconite root to allay any fever the animal may 
have; have a good stock food, such as Hess, Arabian 
or International; give in his feed as per directions 
on package. 

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Distemper. 

Causes. This disease of the horse is like aggra- 
vated catarrh in man, and is brought on from the 
taking of severe cold, which, when neglected in both, 
runs into distemper in one and catarrh in the other, 
which when neglected runs into glanders in one and 
consumption in the other. 

Symptoms. Are a dejected appearance of animal; 
staring, rough-looking coat; very dull and stupid; 
often with thick, heavy breathing, and occasionally 
a slight cough. 

Treatment. Take pine tar and pour a small quan- 
tity of it on a handful of feathers in an old can or 
pot, place a covering over the animal's head, includ- 
ing the can under the animal's nose, having emptied 
a shovel full of live embers in same; smoke well 
and good for several minutes; then exercise him by 
fast riding a short distance, so as to bring on cough- 
ing, which will open and loosen up the head, and 
cause the excessive running of the nose. This done, 
feed stock powders as per directions on package. 
Glanders. 

Cause. Chronic distemper or cold, w^ith poor care 
and improper treatment. 

Symptoms. The animal has a continual flow at 
times of an ugly discolored corruption from nostrils, 
though of no particular or perceptible odor or smell 
(as a slouchy urchin with a bad cold and a dirty 
nose). His general appearance is very dejected, with 
rough staring coat, and animal is in poor, emaciated 
condition, as a person in the midst of a case of gal- 
loping consumption. 

Treatment. It is claimed there is no effective 

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treatment for this awful disease, but I am of the 
belief that if the animal is very particularly and 
strictly kept at least three hundred yards away from 
other stock, to avoid the most sure and possible con- 
tagion that exists in this disease, placed in a build- 
ing and lot that distance at least away and given a, 
chance for his life, with the following treatment, 
there is a possibility of recovery; with the addition 
of rich, nourishing food, such as oats, sliorts and 
wheat bran, and some good corn and hay, with about 
a pound and half of cotton seed meal every day dis- 
tributed over his feed, and the following tonic, viz: 
Four (4) ounces of white vitriol (shake) and six (6) 
ounces o f powder digitalis in three quarts of water; 
tablespoonful doses three times a day for six daps, 
thence twice a day until relieved, will effect a cure. 
It would do no harm to try, any way, under the 
above very particular conditions given above. Every 
precaution should be taken against contagion by 
burning every particle of litter about his premises as 
they accumulate, and the walls and fences disin- 
fected regularly with crude carbolic acid. 
Lung Fever and Pneumonia. 
Causes. Sudden change from very warm to cold 
(and very cold), accompanied with slow drizzle of 
rain. If a horse is exposed in such, with a rundown 
condition of health, or if very warm from fast ex- 
ercise, he is a fit subje-ct, and very many cases are 
contracted in this way ; myself having owned several, 
and the leading up to my learning of and the ac- 
quiring this treatment, was the loss of a fine im- 
ported Clyde horse that contracted, developed and 
died, en route from Enterprise, Kan., to Bryan, 

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Texas. He dropped dead in car in yards at Fort 
Worth as I was switched onto the railroad home 
track. This loss was the cause of my studying up 
and getting onto this crack-shot and sure treatment; 
since which time, though having several of my own 
and having treated some of my neighbors', free and 
as a friend, I have never failed in a single instance 
except one; and she was a suckler, in the last stage 
of the disease, and had been bled very freely just 
before (after which there is no earthly chance of 
saving their life) ; for the ravages of the disease, 
when permitted to run until the last stage has been 
reached (as this case had) are so weakening, and 
with the addition of the loss of vitality by bleeding, 
they are left in so weak a condition that, without 
the very best of nursing, care and nourishments, 
they can not recuperate sufficient to save them. 

Symptoms. When first taken they show signs of 
a slight chill and will occasionally cough in a some- 
what distressing manner, though short. In the next 
stage they will appear very disinterested and lie 
around, apparently real sick, but exhibiting no sign 
of any particular pain, or misery, in any especial 
part. This is the second stage, and the only time of 
the disease when they show any inclination to lie 
down. After the third and last stage has been 
reached, the animal's jaws become locked, and their 
whole system becomes very tense and rigid. The 
animal will move about as if very stiff, with its 
mouth elevated and head and neck extended; and 
when standing, will have fore feet slightly spraddled 
apart and placed somewhat forward, his whole ap- 
pearance indicating the greatest pain and suffering. 

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He is also in a very high, hot fever, and if speedy 
relief is not forthcoming, will not live many hours, 
most usually dropping dead, as I never heard of one 
lying down to die (unless the disease was broken 
and too weak to stand, as in case where was bled) ; 
and I have known of several cases belonging to 
people who could find no relief for them and who 
didn't know at the time of my treatment. 

Treatment. If discovered in the first stage, one 
■dose is sufficient of each of the medicines, after 
which give stock food in their feed twice for two 
days and once a day for a week, and in occasional 
feed through the week. When the second and third 
stages have been reached, place animal in comfort- 
able and roomy quarters, free from all draughts and 
exposure, and give twenty drops of tincture of accon- 
ite root by securing tongue with one hand and the 
medicine being in a teaspoon (no water), shove 
same in mouth as far back on top of tongue as pos- 
sible, turn spoon over, leaving acconite all in mouth; 
keeping animal blanketed all the while to induce a 
sweat. Now leave him to himself for four hours, 
when return and repeat treatment as before. If 
necessary, i. e., if aniaml is not revived, give four 
doses in this way (particularly, only four, strictly) — 
no more, and no nearer than four hours together. In 
a real severe case can give twenty-five drops, the 
outside limit of dose to be safe. I was eye-witness 
at one time to the treatment of a case in last stage, 
by a careless party, who either didn't know the na- 
ture of the medicine, or did not care; and who, 
though I repeatedly warned him of the danger of not 
observing those rules, persistently gave two strong 

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dosee, and although the first dose broke the disease, 
and the horse would have recovered in good shape, 
the inhumane or ignorant fellow poisoned him, and 
the horse taking a circle, when let loose in barn lot, 
kept the same until he dropped dead. While there 
is no danger if my instructions are adhered to (for 
I have taken the same in three drops at a dose my- 
self and use it in my family for fever in two-drop 
doses and proves to be the very best of remedies 
for the same, four hours or six hours apart, and not 
more than four doses in one case), yet if deviated 
from there are death-dealing properties in it. Now 
in the ten or twelve hours after horse has taken last 
dose of acconite give the dose of medicine as pre- 
scribed herein for bots. Feed well and good, and 
your animal will be of as much use to you after- 
wards as he ever was. 

As my exposition of science and nature would have 
been very incomplete, as a means of building up a 
successful, profitable and prosperous farm home, 
without this attained and useful knowledge of the 
horse and his ailments, and the tried, proven and 
true remedies, derived from a long experience in 
owning and handling farm stock, and my great love 
for the horse and desire to always be able to relieve 
his pain and preserve his most useful life, I am in- 
deed thankful and proud to be able to furnish the 
precious knowledge, so valuable to man and beast 
alike. In the completing of the Formula of Knowl- 
edge and Instructions, for all of that purpose, for the 
people of the whole world, a separate and a few 
words will not be out of place and must be in evi- 

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dence to make this complete for the other kinds of 
farm animals, poultry, etc. 

The cow is a very hearty, and free from disease, 
animal. In their natural state, and only supplied 
with food as nature produces it, by way of the nat- 
ural grasses of the open range; and during the time 
of year, when those grasses have and contain their 
full nutriment, keep in the pink of condition, if no 
other feed is given (and if man would bestir him- 
self just a little in the fall of the year, with mower, 
etc., and with the required amount of those grasses 
fenced off, and protected as a hay meadow, and cut 
and stack up in feed racks, easily made and con- 
structed, as follows: Set three stout posts in ground, 
atout five foot high; securely fasten a 15-foot pole, 
or 6x8 timber, along the top of posts; now dig a 
trench of 12 inches in depth, about five or six feet 
from posts on each side, and of same length as tim- 
ber or ridge pole on top of posts. Now take poles 
of 12 or 14 feet in length, and placing the lower end 
in the trench, lean the pole against the ridge pole or 
timber, along the top of posts, placing one in position, 
first on one side and then the other, thus dodging 
the same, and forming a complete receptacle above 
the ridge pole, with ample capacity of retaining a 
large amount of the ready mown and cured grass, 
that if securely packed in the same, and rounded up 
nicely, or comb-like, , in order to successfully and 
properly shed the rains; will keep and retain its 
nutriment and life sustaining properties, all during 
the winter, when the dead grasses on the open range 
are void of all nutriment, and life sustaining prop- 
erties; and wiien the cows in great numbers depend- 

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ing on same for food, get in a very poor and low 
condition of vitality, and many die of actual starva- 
tion; thus perpetrating great losses, to the owners; 
and much, most manifest, suffering among the poor, 
dependent farm animals, who if the above simple 
and easy and cheap rules were observed, they would 
have ample provision made for their comfort and 
support through the hard, trying wintry season, and 
at very nominal and low cost. Another still cbeaper 
and more available method of thus preserving this 
food, grown and provided by nature, is to sink the 
end of a 14 or 16-foot pole two feet in the earth, 
securely tamping and making firm the same, and 
erecting the same in a perfect vertical form; now 
the mown and cured grass can be raked and by 
means of the great sweep rake, or drag, conveyed in 
great quantities to the perpendicularly erected pole, 
and firmly packed in a semi-circle around the same, 
to the width of from 10 to 14 feet in diameter at the 
base and gradually sloping up to a point at the top 
of pole, thus making it self-preserving from effects 
of falling weather. Now^ when the nutritious food 
supply is no longer available on the open range, the 
cow can be afforded free access to this stored sup- 
ply of feed, and wall liberally attend to her own 
wants, thus preserving life and comfort, to such^ a 
degree that they will unmistakably keep and be in 
good condition the winter through, a conserved cap- 
ital, and a source of profit to their owners), w^hile if 
the cow is kept and used, fed and utilized for dairy 
purposes, they are sometimes, through overeating of 
highly concentrated and strong foods, subject to at- 
tacks of indigestion that culminate in disastrous and 

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fatal results. When such is evident, a judicious use 
of either or any of the many proven successful med- 
ical and tonical stock powders or food now manufac- 
tured and on the market, will effect a complete cure, 
and restoration of the animal. If the animal is so 
badly affected that they will not eat same mixed with 
their feed, it can be used as a drench in water and 
poured into their mouths and thus administered in a 
successful manner until such time as they will eat 
the same mixed with their food. The author has 
never seen a failure of this proving most satisfac- 
tory, while without it many valuable animals have 
been lost. Hogs the same. The author has in his 
experience in the past, when stock powders were iioi 
available, taken one-half ounce (tablespoonful) of 
aloes and the same of flour of sulphur, as a dose, 
administered to suffering cows, with the desired re- 
sults, preserving and completely relieving and re- 
storing the cow so affected. Now all farm animals, 
poultry, etc., are subject to an inactive and dormant 
system, and liver, through overeating, indigestion, 
and the want of plenty of pure drinking water, al- 
ways easy of access to one and all; a little attention 
given by way of tonical stock powders mixed in 
their feed occasionally, and plenty of pure drinking 
water, easy of access at any and all times, and an 
ample supply of wholesome food, will insure and 
guarantee to the farmer at all times a well grown, 
healthy, fat, and of the finest quality of their partic- 
ular kind of farm animal or poultry. This has all 
been witnessed, tried, and proven, by the author, 
who now is giving it to the people of all the world, 
as a sure means of success, in all of those lines of 

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agriculture, and the maintaining of a beautiful, self- 
sustaining, profitable and prosperous farm home, 
surrounded by successfully grown crops, and beauti- 
ful, fat and thrifty farm animals, and poultry of all 
kinds, which all go to the supplying and furnishing 
to man all the comforts and luxuries of the civilized 
world, or civilization. 

The magnanimous purpose of the arduous and 
deep study of science and nature by the inventor 
and author, and thus solving of many of the hard 
problems of life that stood out as gigantic and seem- 
ingly insurmountable obstacles in the way of man's 
comfort and happy existence, is most manifest to 
be to the greatest furtherance and advancement of 
all agricultural pursuits, to the means of the people 
being made self-sustaining and prosperous; self- 
asserting, loyal and independent, high-spirited 
specimens of noble citizenship of the country of their 
homes; by his removing of those obstacles that made 
the occupation of farming very unprofitable and al- 
together undesirable, and unattractive, to the young 
bloods, of noble sires, and ancestry, who no sooner 
than the opportunity, afforded by age, etc., are only 
too much elated to avail themselves of the same, 
and so rid themselves of the hitherto proven un- 
remunerative business, with its life-sapping, unrelent- 
ing toil and duties, in trying to subdue and make 
produce the hard, obdurate soil; and the coping with 
the many other — ^impossible of results — of the farm 
life, heretofore, in many instances, and more espe- 
cially in the heavy, strong, incomplete soils of our 
rich prairie lands; and with eyes set on what to 
them appears as a bright, alluring and dazzling 

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■beacon of future prosperity, in wait for them in the 
large cities, with their gliter of great wealth, riches, 
and grandeur; of promised ease, luxury, and pleas- 
ures; hie themselves hither, with all haste; only to, 
— when they arrive, — find themselves engulfed in a 
confusing maelstrom mass of seething, working, and 
ever moving humanity, mystifying, and addling, in 
the extreme, to the newly arrived seekers of this 
world's comJorts, and happiness; and who now for 
the first time in their lives most fully realize their 
real littleness, and possible insignificance, in this 
great world of business rush and progress; and who 
often in their restrospective moods wish they wer>S 
out of, and again enjoying the freedom of nature, 
with its health-giving, pure atmosphere, and great 
roomy surroundings, where they could feel with 
great satisfaction and triumph, as though they were 
indeed the true lords of creation; but who upon re- 
flection of the impossibility, of the real hard side of 
life from which they have just emerged, still stay 
on, to many destructive results, of both soul and 
body; while many of those high born, and of noble 
strain, are compelled to lower their well merited 
dignity to the menial occupations of sawyers of 
wood and drawers of water, and such servitude as 
their more fortunate brother of money demands of 
them. Oh! sad, sad, it is, indeed. And in high hopes 
of his most persistent and persevering efforts, at re- 
sults; of being the means of making home farm life 
the most productive of self-sustaining, happy, and 
easily profitable and prosperous results; the which 
will most assuredly, and without any shadow of a 
doubt, make the occupation of farming now, as a 

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]]usiness proposition, a most popular, much sought 
for, and with such highly attractive features as a 
comfortable and lucrative position, will turn the tide 
of immigration back from farm to city, to from city 
to farm; and so, not only redeem the lost dignity 
of nobility driven from the farm by inavoidable ad- 
versity, but also bring others into it who have as yet 
not enjoyed the freedom and great exultancy and 
independence of successful farm life and business. 
Oh, the great glory of such a triumph! When I con- 
template the immensity of it, in the making of so 
many multitudes of the people, in all parts of the 
v/orld. self-sustaining, independent, noble and happy; 
and of the ability of it to preserve the credit and 
build up the wealth and prosperity of all nations, I 
feel like self-exultation with great pride and elation 
over the knowing that this work of knowledge will 
contain correct and only accurate knowledge of cli- 
mates and soils, their true effects on all animal and 
plant life, both for beneficial and injurious purposes; 
with its true exposition and defining of science and 
nature, man can now understand his own, and all 
animal nature, soils, and all farm crop plant life na- 
ture; the true nature and causes of the invasion and 
destructiveness of life and crops, by disease and 
insects, and sure preventives and effective remedies; 
cheap, sure and effective plans of drainage for the 
msot difficult of lands; to the extermination and 
complete and entire stamuping out of most annoying 
and disease-producing insects; and that sure, quick, 
death-dealing trouble, Charbon; and make those 
lands the most productive and richest of farm crop 
lands; and many other god things that will now 

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easily make all agriculture, as a business, the most 
successful and profitable of all others; I feel that I 
have accomplished a great life work, and am fully 
aware that as an inventor I have fully done my part 
well. 

"Knowledge is power." The three words in our 
language that prove the truth of their meaning with 
more forcefulness of character and effectiveness than 
all others. Let us define the situation by just one 
small, but heart-rending, illustration, if we were eye- 
witnesses of it in reality: Behold that most loving, 
protecting and affectionate father, immensely rich 
in money, lands and property. There hovering 
over and around his sweet, l(fVable, angelic disposi- 
tioned little daughter, just sixteen years of age, a 
known to be fatal and quick dealing death disease, 
fastening its fearful, and suffering producing 
clutches, daily closer and closer, — with plainly visi- 
ble disastrous effects, — ^around this muchly beloved 
being's vitals; the parent's heart is torn and bleeding 
with the knowing and witnessing of the same. He 
is making every effort that money and influence can 
produce, by way of travel, and attention, — of his 
own, and the most renowned and eminent medical 
skill for her rescue from those dealth dealing 
clutches, and the restoration of her to his arms, 
saved and health. Oh, the life-sapping torture of 
such anguish! I have seen it in fathers before now. 
Let a person possessed with the requisite knowledge 
of such diseases come in; at a glance he takes in 
the whole situation; knows the cause, sees the un- 
failing symptoms; prescribes what he is fully aware 
will go directly to the seat of the trouble. With un- 

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failing accuracy it works its power upon the enemy, 
and slowly, but most assuredly, it unwinds those 
death dealing clutches from about and around the 
life of this beautiful being; and she is restored in 
all of her usual health and loveliness to her now most 
rejoiced and relieved father, saved! Save through 
knowledge, which without any inordinary efforts, 
more than just making use of the simple remedies 
that knowledge had revealed to him, — through the 
study of the same — would reach the seat of the 
trouble, and react upon it, to the healing and restora- 
tion of the patient. Oh, great is knowledge! In the 
gaining of this knowledge, that will now make it 
possible for every man in all parts of the world to 
become a self-sustaining, independent citizen, a 
credit to his country, and the possessor of, and owner 
of, a happy household, a prosperous, profitable farm 
home. I have procured the requisite knowledge; the 
world contains the land, and in abundance; you have 
the money. Now by the wise use of this money in 
procuring, printing and putting in possesion of those 
people this knowledge, and through wise systems of 
agencies and proper management, you can act the 
good Samaritan, and at the same time derive great 
gain therefrom for self. We have the feast prepared. 
Do not call on the rich and well-to-do; but go ye 
out into the highways and bring in the poor and 
needy that will attend; and so shall my banquet have 
the required attendance. Where are those public 
highways? Where is the poor father with large fam- 
ily and of brawn and muscle, who in his old home 
in foreign lands, which crowded with greater popula- 
tion than land to support? The poor, hard-working, 

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energetic and industrious, and for the most, intelli- 
gent people, save and skimp on every point, until 
thinking enough has been hoarded up to convey 
them to the new countrq, of broad acres, and such 
great possibilities and opportunities, sets foot on 
these shores, landing, most generally, in some large 
city with altogether different surroundings to his 
expectations; confused, and not anything being in- 
telligible to him, he knows not which way to turn, 
or do, for the accomplishing of what he left home 
to do, and gain, and most usually lodges there, and 
remains, for lack of the knowledge and means to 
better his condition, often becoming in want, and 
suffering the effects of the most squalid poverty, and 
becoming a poor, cringing object of beggary and de- 
pendent on the dispensing to him the daily crust 
by the many charitable institution? of those large 
cities; barely, and — just being enabled to do so — 
keeping soul and body together; in his want of a 
shelter and clothing, wanders thes treets, vagabond- 
like. They are there in thousands, and tens of thou- 
sands; a living and crying shame, and disgrace to 
any country, comm-onwealth, or nation, in whose ter- 
ritory they may be found. 

Now, fellow citizens, with the land, and the money, 
and this complete form of knowledge as to how to 
make profitable and prosperous farm homes, it is 
on your shoulders; it only remains for you to decide 
those unfortuntae fellow-men's fate. Shall they now, 
with all of this great feast of prepared facilities, as 
a banquet, be gathered and brought in as per com- 
mand; and be permitted to partake bountifully 
thereof, and so be enabled by their industry to make 

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useful, self-sustaining citizens, helping to build up 
the wealth and prosperity of the country in which 
they are, and of which they are citizens, — as much 
so as you or I; or shall they be permitted to remain 
and thus have to continue time without end, a living 
toucry of shame against the country on whose 
shores they are thus found; when now all those lands 
of possible and positive agriculture, will be crying 
out in their desolation and want of this very class 
of brawn and sinev/, and in their need of just such 
labor; which when produced, and rightly placed 
thereon; will bloom out, in the most bountiful yields, 
of all the great crops of nutriment and sustenance 
to anim.al and man? 

To impress the subject of charbon more fully, 
will say again to sink a well or pipe in the center of 
every water hole or sink on the land and there will 
never be no accumulation of water in the same to 
stand and breed charbon parasites and other disease- 
creating poisonous insects. Lower the top of pipe 
or well curb below surface of bottom of pond by 
digging a square three-foot hole 18 inches deep, and 
allow top of pipe to be 10 inches up from bottom of 
hole. Now screen securely the top of each pipe or 
curb and lay neatly over the hole pieces of 2x12 
lumber as a cover for protection of stock and from 
drifting soil and sand. 



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INDEX 



Farming in Texas 3 

What Its Contents Will Do 3 

An Inventor's Life 4 

Author an Inventor; What His Exposition on 

f Science and Nature Will Do 4 

Human Systems 6 

Effects of Sea Breeze 6 

[Malarial Poison When Going to Seashore 7 

A Heaven on Earth .* 7 

Salt; Its Effects 8 

Its Properties as a Chemical, Medicine and Food. 8 

As an Enrichening Substance of the Soil 9 

Man and Animals' Source of Nourishment 9 

Food of Plant Life; How Derived and Received.. 10 
Best Condition of Soil in Furnishing Abundant 

Nourishment 10 

Chemical Analysis 14 

To Ascertain Rich, Productive Soils, etc 15 

Sea Air Influence on Soil 16 

Correcting the Defect in Coast Soils 16 

Preparing the Soil, etc 17 

Deep Plowing in Arid Regions 18 

Plowing in Rainfall Country 18 

Preparing Land for Wheat or Oats 19 

Wheat and Oats Cultivation 20 

Right and Only Proper Way to Prepare Soil 21 

Best narrower and Pulverizer; How Made, etc... 22 

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For Corn 24 

Cultivation Properly Done 25 

For Cotton 25 

Cotton Insects ; Boll Weevil 26 

Demonstration of Test 26 

Proper Drainage, etc 27 

Farm Animals; The Horse, etc 31 

Effects of Sea Air on the Horse 32 

Properties of Salt, etc 33 

Nervous System, etc 33 

Diseases of Horse in Acclimating and Treatment. 34 

All Sores, etc 36 

Fistula, etc 37 

Charbon, etc 37 

Purposes of this Work and Book 38 

Humane Plea for the Horse and Treatment 39 

Colic; Cause, Symptoms and Treatment 43 

Bots, etc 44 

Founder or Laminitis 46 

Abscess of the Brain (Commonly Known as 

Blind Staggers) 47 

Distemper 49 

Glanders i9 

Lung Fever and Pneumonia 50 



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